Comments on: Again: Why I Like FriendFeed

By: How Connected Do I Really Want To Be With Social Media? (Part 2 of 2) — Todd Albertson

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:06:46 +0000

[…] FriendFeed. I like FriendFeed a lot because it amalgamates a bunch of my other sites into one place without trying, I just do what I normally do on the web and it shows up on FriendFeed. If you want to know what I am up to, go to Friend Feed and it will tell you. A good post entitled “Why I Life FriendFeed” can be found here. […]

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:06:54 +0000

He, it’s cool. Welcome!

By: theregoesdave

theregoesdave — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:44:47 +0000

Thanks for the correction Mikw.

Go me. Can you tell that I’m the new guy around here?

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:42:13 +0000

Heh, I think you mean Jason — Webomatica. I’m just a visitor.

For what it’s worth, I’m glad they don’t actually use my Last.fm data in the FriendFeed. What a nightmare — I listen to so much music that it would drown everything else out. I’d be fine with excluding feeds. As of now, it’s mostly del.icio.us and Twitter, which is what I’m really using lately.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:06:54 +0000

He, it’s cool. Welcome!

By: theregoesdave

theregoesdave — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:44:47 +0000

Thanks for the correction Mikw.

Go me. Can you tell that I’m the new guy around here?

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:42:13 +0000

Heh, I think you mean Jason — Webomatica. I’m just a visitor.

By: theregoesdave

theregoesdave — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:41:32 +0000

Hi Mike, I agree that FriendFeed can be an interesting way to aggregate all your social web data. The things that stuck out most for me in looking at it were information overload and considering whether all data streams are equal.

Sometimes I’ll have a post on my blog and mention it on twitter, which in tun gets syndicated out onto the web. This is duplicative and would force me to post updates through twitter, but move my readers to friendfeed as to avoid information overload. The other consideration is whether a particular service or account is actually important. My digg feed may or may not actually be useful since I’m pretty active in the digging community and so all my diggs may overload the stream nor indicate much about my actual interests.

I like friendfeed’s functinality and the ease of building a feed, but I’m still waiting to take the big jump!

By: Scott Lawton (Blogcosm)

Scott Lawton (Blogcosm) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:34:08 +0000

No trackback? In any case, I liked your bullet points (well, sans bullets) and included them in our roundup ... which is a followup to our post that added Technorati & Alexa data to Louis Gray's big list.

By: webomatica

webomatica — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:46:19 +0000

Mike — It was bringing in the feed but excluding certain items and including ones I didn’t want. I can’t remember exactly what, but I’m re-inspired to try again soon

Eng that is a good idea — based on comments on friendfeed alone — from bloggers worried about comments moving elsewhere. But would comments on the blog be added to digg / delicious / ff, too? I think they would have to, in order to keep the conversation straight.

By: engtech

engtech — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:29:41 +0000

interesting idea… a wordpress plugin to reimport meta comments from delicious/digg/ff back into WP.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:13:55 +0000

Heh, thanks…I still gotta format it, and I wish I could use the service icons…I suppose those two things are next, when I can find the time.

Was the WP plugin able to display the feed, or was it just the appearance of the feed?

I think WP has an RSS sidebar widget — though I’m not sure if it supports Atom, which is the only type of feed I could find for FriendFeed.

By: webomatica

webomatica — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:47:57 +0000

Yep the comments feature is getting varied opinons, that’s for sure.

BTW I like what you did with your site using FriendFeed. I have tried to get Simple Pie to work as a sidebar but it was not formatting the FriendFeed Feed correctly — I’ll try again this weekend!

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:41:35 +0000

For what it’s worth, I wish I could turn off FriendFeed commenting…or at least, turn off commenting at the other sites that FriendFeed indexes. I’m not sure if there’s a good solution, at the moment.

If I post something original, such as photos I’ve taken, it becomes tricky to navigate multiple conversations. One of the things I like about FriendFeed is consolidation, which is why this annoys me so much!

I’ll try to ease up to commenting at FriendFeed though, as some sites (like Twitter) don’t allow commenting. There’s got to be a balance in here, somewhere.

Otherwise, the site is in an excellent stage, and I can’t wait to see it mature. Based on your post, I almost hope it doesn’t become too successful for its own good…Facebook has become so popular, that they really can’t do anything daring anymore.